Topics - Amble

Just a minor issue that bothers me. I know that I could understand this if I cared to do maths and calculate time zones, but as a casual player I really can't keep up all the time.

Battle timers report as estimated time of completion in server time or something. I think you can tell what time it is currently by checking server time in the bottom, I think. Then it also tells you at the bottom what in-game day it is. But doesn't tell you when the battle will end in-game or in your local time. Most useful thing for it to say is: Battle will end in x hours (or in x in game days).

When travelling all you get told is how many in-game days your trip will take. I know you just have to divide by four and then multiply by 24 for real hours. That's fine that it reflects the in game timeline and adds to the atmosphere. But please can we use the same units in the battle timer and the travel and stop us all having to do this struggle every time?

Options I can suggest of are either tell us the estimated battle start and end in in-game dates (this adds a little more uncertainty to it as there are no hours marked, I think thats a good thing really because you wouldnt really know when the battle will end) or just say in x hours, or in 0.4 in-game days. Or add to the general travel section with how many hours real life travel the trip will take. Any of those would solve the problem.

Also, I understand that roads do have an effect, but does the travel time estimator know and report this?

I had this idea of one hopefully small change which might improve the game a little (at least in my eyes). I love that as a new player you get the challenge of trying to discover as much as you can about the realms and their histories. And as a new player it's great to get a town of your own and maybe a little realm to invest in. And the names and experience and logs of soldiers help you really care about them when you only have a few. A way to improve both aspects would be to allow the owner of a soldier to read the battle report of a battle that the soldier was part of even if the noble wasn't. I mean, it's reasonable that the soldier should be able to tell me which nobles fought and who won etc. This would help me learn about the history and politics around me better, it would give me a reason to care more about particular soldiers - for the stories they tell. And you might find some soldiers who know about such famous battles that they are as valuable as historians as they are as warriors.

A down side potentially is that it makes it even easier for experts studying the combat mechanics to gain the upper hand. But this seems like a realistic mechanic to me and this con is probably outweighed by the pros.

Anyway it's just a feature I thought might improve the game and might not be too difficult to implement.